Posted on 09/22/2018 4:30:04 AM PDT by BeadCounter
TEHRAN, Iran — Gunmen attacked an annual Iranian military parade Saturday in the country's oil-rich southwest, killing at least 24 people, including eight members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guard, and wounding 53 others, local media reported.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency cited "knowledgeable sources" without elaborating. It said gunmen were dressed in Guard uniforms and targeted a riser where military and police commanders were sitting.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault in Ahvaz, which saw gunfire spray into a crowd of marching Guardsmen, bystanders and government officials watching from a nearby riser. However, Iran faced a bloody assault last year from the Islamic State group and Arab separatists in the region have attacked oil pipelines there in the past.
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The just love slaughtering. Who are we to judge? /s
Reminds me of Sadat’s assassination.
Ah. Patriots of the Shah Pahlavi.
I’m assuming they targeted only military/government and not women and children? If so…GOOD.
These are all early reports.... but al Arabiya is saying ISIS does take responsibility.
From what I gather and I even know someone who went over to Iran, it’s a heavy police state so in most cases, it’s hard to pull off something like this. A foreign visitor can’t even look cross-eyed there without getting detained.
It’s a big attack. This article above says Iran’s Republican Guard has lost about 24 soldiers. Again, all early reports.
Oh, and this link has a bit more on photos: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gunmen-attack-iran-army-parade-killing-several-soldiers-244333424
One can see the “stand” where the dignitaries were sitting and that was probably among the main targets.
Probably an excuse for even more crackdown on dissent and protection of dictatorship. Sacrificing own members easy for totalitarians.
Who knows what really happened, but one thing in the article is conspicuous by it’s absence. There have apparently been an increasing number of attacks by Kurdish groups in Iran and Iran recently fired missiles at Kurdish targets in Iraq. The people of Iran, too, are increasingly restless and want a different government. There have been numerous shootings of protesting citizens by the Revolutionary Guard.
It’s as if Machiavelli and Shakespeare scripted a political intrigue.
It’s to the Iranian government’s advantage to make the attack look like an enemy other than the Kurds or their own citizens. Again; who knows what’s really going on.
let’s hope the CIA has a piece in this. The rebels need our clandestine support. This will give the CIA something to do rather than overthrowing Trump.
The attackers, Iranian army uniforms, came from behind the ‘saluting’ stand on motorcycles and got away. Iran claims that bystanders including children were injured. 24 dead 60 injured, US blamed by Iran for supporting ‘regional elements’ to carry put the attack.
Too bad we dont have John McCain’s expert foreign policy guidance to quell this.
Just wow
OK, I laughed.
Keep in mind that the people are Persians first and muslin second. Before the overthrow in 79 the Persians were free and lived a western lifestyle.
There are things I respect about Iranian culture (mainly swinging those big clubs for exercise), also, they are big soccer fans and nation, there is a big soccer/football forum for Iran in English which says a little about them if one read comments curious as to them, Persian football or something is its name. We had Iranians in college whose families left their when the Mullahs came to power. A lot of them are okay honestly. One girl in college was Faruz, Farook, something like that, she didn’t wear a veil or anything. She was nice enough.
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